WCAS Minors
In Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Weinberg College minors are generally open to students from Northwestern’s other undergraduate schools. These include traditional fields of study in the social sciences, the humanities, mathematics, and the natural sciences, as well as many interdisciplinary minors. Undergraduate students from throughout Northwestern may also participate in the Chicago Field Studies programs housed within Weinberg College.
For more information on all these options, see the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences chapter of this catalog.
The following academic units offer Weinberg College minors:
- African Studies
- Anthropology
- Art History
- Art Theory and Practice
- Asian American Studies
- Asian Languages and Cultures (minors in Asian Humanities or Advanced Asian Languages)
- Black Studies
- Business Institutions
- Chemistry
- Classics (minors in Latin, Greek, or Classical Studies)
- Cognitive Science
- Comparative Literary Studies (minor in World Literature)
- Computer Science
- Critical Theory
- Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Economics
- English (minors in English or Creative Writing)
- Environmental Policy and Culture
- French and Italian (minors in French or Italian)
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- German (minors in German, German Studies, or Business German)
- Global Health Studies
- History
- Humanities
- International Studies
- Jewish Studies (minors in Jewish Studies or Hebrew Studies)
- Latina and Latino Studies
- Latin American and Caribbean Studies
- Legal Studies
- Linguistics
- Materials Science
- Mathematics
- Middle East and North African Languages (minor in Arabic)
- Middle East and North African Studies
- Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Philosophy
- Physics and Astronomy (minor in Physics)
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Religious Studies (minors in Religious Studies or Catholic Studies)
- Science in Human Culture
- Slavic Languages and Literatures (minor in Russian and East European Studies)
- Sociology
- Spanish and Portuguese (minors in Spanish or Portuguese Language and Lusophone Cultures)
- Statistics (minors in Statistics or Data Science)